Quotes: Rules

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, ‘I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.’

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 – only this time, it’s not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it’s tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

I didn’t follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.